Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Plug-in electric vehicle (EV) drivers can now sign up and pay for ChargePoint charging with PayPal. PayPal has long supported EVs and has installed 34 ChargePoint ports at its San Jose, California, campus for employees and visitors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) released two reports assessing the readiness of two different areas of California—the San Diego and the Central Valley regions—for the widespread use of electric vehicles. Plug-in readiness reports. The reports show a wide difference in preparedness between the two.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Pike projections of cumulative light duty plug-in electric vehicle sales, 10 largest MSAs by population, 2011-2017. Pike Research has earlier forecasted the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market at the national level in the US, globally, and within world regions and key countries. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. These typically range from $1,000 to $3,000 per battery electric vehicle in most states, and they are typically about half as much for plug-in hybrid vehicles due to their lesser all-electric driving capability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

in his talk at the opening plenary of Plug-in 2010 in San Jose, California. Nissan will warranty the battery pack in its LEAF EV for 8 years and 100,000 miles, according to Carlos Tavares, executive vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of Nissan Motor Co., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. In a post on GM’s FastLane blog, Vice Chairman Tom Stephens said that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of the four core brands remaining after the restructuring: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Ford anticipates that hybrids will represent about 70% of the 2020 numbers, with plug-in hybrids contributing 20-25% and battery-electric vehicles the remainder, she said. Ford’s approach with its plug-in hybrid is to use the parallel power split architecture of its standard hybrids. Nancy Gioia. Nancy Gioia.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

The station delivers Level II (208/240 V @ 30 A) charging and is compatible with plug-in electric vehicles that comply with the SAE J1772 plug-in electric vehicle-charging standard. This industry-first prewire mounting system provides for simple plug-in installation for new charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

In June, Plug In Carolina selected AeroVironment to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle stations in seven South Carolina cities. Plug-ins such as the Volt and LEAF will be able to use the Evatran system with an adapter. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Aerovironment’s home charging dock.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Better Place, with support from the US Department of Transportation via the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, has committed to bring a switchable battery, electric taxi program to the Bay Area in partnership with the cities of San Francisco and San Jose.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

In a new report, Navigant Research forecasts that North American plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales will exceed 1.1 To date, North America is the strongest market for light duty (LD) plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), with more than 133,000 sold in 2014. million annually by 2024. million in the aggressive. between 2015 and 2024.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2010

GM announced the price for the 2011 Volt at Plug-In 2010, a conference being held this week in San Jose. The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has been in gestation so long, we've wondered if it ever would become a reality. Now the reality is here. The Volt's MSRP will be $41,000, which includes a $720 destination fee.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Focus is supposed to get 100 miles to a charge, but Frank is very worried about where people are going to plug in their cars. Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. Plugging Plug-Ins, Part I.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The CEC proposed awarding nine grants this year under this particular program (Solicitation PON-10-602, Regional Plans to Support Plug-In Electric Vehicle Readiness.) The council will help promote the use of plug-in electric vehicles in the San Diego area and create a set of consistent best management practices to simplify their introduction.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Aptera, of Carlsbad, Calif., On Wednesday it announced $ 5.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

This collaboration will result in a universal interface, architected by Renovo, that will provide plug-and-play compatibility with Civil Maps’ vehicular cognition stack for all other modules in the fast-growing AWare ecosystem, thereby providing significant time and cost savings for developers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2010

Martinez joins San Jose, San Francisco, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill as Bay Area cities that have networked charging stations installed. Other areas in Northern California include Campbell, Sonoma County and Chico.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

High-power plug-in battery system with active cooling. Wrightspeed has shifted the sync function that used to be performed by mechanical means into software control of electronics, driving the electric motor with precision. The system is therefore lighter, cheaper, and more efficient.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars. I will pay nothing for my 300 mile road trip.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has selected 8 awardees for a total of $8,875,457 in funding to install Direct Current (DC) fast charging stations on Interstate 5 (I-5), State Route 99 (SR 99), and along United States Highway 101 (US-101) from San Jose traveling South in California. US-101: San Jose to Buellton.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2025

At Nvidias GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch designed to drastically cut the power consumption of AI data centers. A long-awaited, emerging computer network component may finally be having its moment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

San Mateo County has an estimated 19,000 plug-in electric vehicles on the road. —Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), whose district includes northern San Mateo County. Total CEC investments in the regional CALeVIP collaboration between San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties are proposed at $30 million.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Employees with chargers at their workplace are six times more likely to drive a plug-in electric vehicle than the average worker, and chargers located at the workplace can potentially double an electric vehicle owner’s daily driving range. Joining Electrify America in this initiative are SemaConnect, EV Connect and Greenlots.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

To support this emerging plug-in electric vehicle market, the Energy Commission has invested more than $20 million to assist in the development of 5,000 charging stations statewide; and has awarded approximately $2 million to help local governments plan for more plug-in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These vehicle markets range greatly in size, from hundreds of electric vehicle sales up to approximately 4,000 (San Jose). These cities tend to be smaller, but Oakland and San Jose are also within the high electric vehicle uptake cities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, California; Redmond, Wash.; Tags: Infrastructure Plug-ins. Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC. Charging station installation, in most regions, will be paid for by the individual or station owner, according to Coulomb.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. The Leaf is just the first of several all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles about to come on the market. Advertisement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. Existing metro area investments to be expanded are: Fresno. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. The question isn't whether drivers of plug-in cars deserve free power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Initial AWare deployments will take place this year in Voyage’s existing commercial community deployments in The Villages in Central Florida and The Villages in San Jose, CA. These deployments will feature Voyage’s custom automated driving system (ADS) running on Renovo’s AWare OS.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Three of the nine communities for the program are in California: Sacramento, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area. “A

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

The CoE closely collaborates with technology partners Quantumscape (San Jose, CA) which is driving solid-state battery technology, and 24M (Cambridge, MA), which is re-imagining the design of battery cells. 4 this year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

5 million for light-duty plug-in electric vehicle rebates to meet high demand for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, administered by the California Air Resources Board. $5 . $7 million for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, coordinated to fulfill the Governor’s ZEV Action Plan. 4 million to emerging opportunities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. Finally, Electrify America will develop a platform that will allow drivers with a home charger to potentially offset their electric bills by plugging in and supporting a demand response platform for grid electric power stability.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 1, 2007

If the governor fired Sawyer over requiring reflective auto paint, it's hard to believe he would have allowed a reinvigorated ZEV mandate that could bring plug-in hybrids and electric cars to market. who sabotaged his efforts to make those first global warming regulations stronger and more expansive.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Quallion showcased the system, which is designed to support 10 hour of cooling at end-of-life, at the recent Battery Show in San Jose, California. What we try to do in the business is look five years out, and get ahead of the competitors. We try to develop relationships with partners, offer them free R&D.

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